Sybiha: Iran tried to avoid responsibility for shooting down flight PS752, but thwarted
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiha has said Iran tried to avoid responsibility for the downing of flight PS752 on Monday, but failed.
“Today in ICAO, we prevented Iran from escaping responsibility for the downing of Flight PS752. Iran tried to object to ICAO Council jurisdiction. But the Council ruled in favor of Ukraine, Canada, Sweden and UK, moving the case to the merits,” he said on X.
Sybiha stressed that “we will keep working together to hold Iran accountable.”
As reported, the UIA Boeing 737-800 passenger plane, which was supposed to operate flight PS 752 on the Tehran-Kyiv route, was shot down near the Imam Khomeini International Airport in Tehran immediately after takeoff early in the morning on January 8, 2020. There were 167 passengers and nine crew members onboard. They all died. Among the dead there were 11 citizens of Ukraine (including nine crew members), 82 citizens of Iran, 63 citizens of Canada, 10 citizens of Sweden, four citizens of Afghanistan, three citizens of Germany and three citizens of Great Britain.
On January 11, Iranian authorities admitted that Boeing was shot down by the Iranian military mistakenly. Later, commander of Aerospace Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Amir Ali Hajizadeh said that took full responsibility for the crash of the Ukrainian plane.